Furniture leg support



Oct. 22, 1935. I... A. JONES FURNITURE LEG SUPPORT Filed Oct. 19, 1954 INVENTQR Z ozzis" Jbneb',

ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 22, 1935 UNITED STATES oris 3 Claims.

This invention relates, generally, to supports or cups used for supporting the legs of furniture such as dressers, bureaus, tables, beds, couches and pianos; the said cups serving to prevent the 5 furniture from injuring or abrading the flooring,

rugs or other supporting surface which is otherwise apt to occur, especially during the moving or shifting of the furniture around.

The furniture leg supports or cups heretofore generally used are provided with cavities of a relatively large diameter so as to enable the cup to receive all Widths or sizes of furniture legs, from the smallest to the largest, with the result that most furniture legs, being of lesser diame ter than the cup cavity, tend to shift to one side of the cup, thereby not only causing the cup-leg assembly to present an unattractive and unsymmetrical appearance, but also tending to cause one edge of the cup to dig or bury itself in rug or other supporting surface.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a novel furniture leg support or cup that is so constructed and arranged as to cause the furniture leg supported thereby to remain in the center of the cup, i. e. the furniture leg, regardless of its diameter, is held concentric with the central vertical axis of the cup, so that the cup-leg assembly is symmetrical and attractive and the load borne by the cup is distributed evenly over the entire base thereof so that no portion of the cup tends to bury itself in the supporting surface more than any other portion of the cup.

Another object of the present invention lies in the provision of a rigid furniture leg support or cup having a receiving recess provided with concentric stepped portions of successively smaller diameters or widths for relatively receiving and supporting furniture legs of varying dimensions, the said cup being designed to support non-circular legs as readily as circular legs.

Other objects of this invention, not at this time more particular enumerated, will be clearly understood from the following detailed description of the same.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the novel furniture leg support of this invention.

Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of the furniture leg support and illustrates a furniture leg supported thereby.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken along line 3-3 of Fig. 1, showing a furniture leg in dash lines having a caster supported within the leg support or cup cavity.

Fig. i is a view similar to Fig. l, and in addition shows a square furniture leg in section supported by the leg support. 5

Fig. 5 is a sectional View taken along line 5-5 of Fig. 4, the furniture leg being shown in full lines.

Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 1, and in addition shows a circular furniture leg in section supl0 ported by the cup.

Similar characters of reference are employed in said views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to the said drawing, the reference numeral iii designates the novel furniture 15 leg support or cup of this invention as a. whole. Cup is may be made of glass, wood, composition, or any other suitable hard and strong material and has a flat base or bottom l l for resting upon the floor or other supporting surface i2. Cup it is of cylindrical shape and has a rounded or beveled peripheral upper edge iii. A furniture leg receiving cavity or recess it extends downwardly from the upper surface of the cup if the said cavity being concentric with the central vertical axis of the cup it.

The side walls of the receiving recess it are stepped to provide horizontal supporting ledges l5, l6 and fl at successively lower positions within the cavity or recess i i, the side wall areas or risers between successive ledges being vertical. Above the ledge it the receiving recess is is of circular shape in plan and provides an upper receiving recess portion l8. The diameter of the receiving recess portion it is the maximum diameter of the cavity M and this receiving recess portion is adapted to receive the large sizes of furniture legs, such as piano legs, for example, the bottom of the leg resting upon the ledge l5.

An intermediate receiving recess portion is is provided above ledge it, which recess portion is of lesser diameter than that of the receiving recess portion l3 and is adapted to receive furniture legs for resting on ledge it, which legs are of lesser diameter than those supported upon ledge l5 (see Fig. 6). The circular side wall of recess portion I9 is provided with four diametrically arranged right-angled indentations or cutout portions 26 which extend outwardly the full width of ledge l5, thereby enabling furniture having square legs of large dimension to rest upon ledge It.

A lower receiving recess portion 25 is provided above ledge H, which recess portion is of lesser diameter than that of the receiving recess por- 5 tion IS and is adapted to receive furniture legs for resting on ledge I! which legs are of lesser diameter than those supported upon ledge E6. The circular side wall of recess portion 2| is also provided with four diametrically disposed rightangled indentations or cut-out portions 22 which extend outwardly the full width of ledge 16,

thereby enabling furniture having square legs of lesser size than those supported by ledge Hi to rest upon ledge Ii.- 7

The central lower portion of the receiving recess Hi has the form of a depression 23 of spherical contour forsub stantially conformably receiving casters such as the caster 24 shown in Fig. 3. With a caster such as caster 24 mounted in depression '23, the same is held by gravity in a central position with respect to the cup l owing to the factthat the lowest portion of the depres- ,sion 23 is at the center of the. cup H).

In use, furniture legs of various sizes, shapes and styles are all adapted to be supported by the novel cup of this invention. Where the leg is extremely large in diameter the same will rest upon the upper ledge I 5 and will be confined Within the'receiving recess portion E8, the cup I!) being at all times concentric with the leg, since the side walls of the receiving recess portion i8 are positioned closely adjacent the sides of the furniture leg. Should the cup Ill be used with a somewhat smaller furniture leg, the latter rests upon ledge it within the intermediate receiving recess portion l9. Square as well as circular legs' regardless of how the furniture is shifted around.

Where the furniture leg is provided with a caster, the same will enter depression 23, thereby still retaining the cup l0 concentric with the caster. Applicants furniture leg support or cup thus serves to not only automatically position itself concentrically with the vertical axis of the furniture leg supported thereby, but this cup also serves to distribute the load of the furniture leg uniformly upon the supporting floor or other surface and prevents excess loads from being applied to any particular spot of the supporting surface, thereby eliminating any tendency to groove or mar the supporting surface.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, as defined by the following claims, it is intended that all matter contained in the above descrip- Still smallerv tion or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

I claim:

1. A furniture leg support comprising,a cylindrical member having a receiving recess extending downwardly from itsupper surface, the Walls of said receiving recess being stepped to'provide a plurality of concentric annular ledges for supporting circular furniture legs of various sizes, said ledges being horizontal, and the step risers between consecutive ledges being vertical, said step risers comprising circumferentially spaced arcuate portions and intervening portions forming right-angle indentations, said indentations extending outwardly the full width of the respective ledges. V

2. A furniture leg support comprising, a rigid member having a fiat base for resting on a sup"- porting surface, said member having a receiving recess extending downwardly from its. upper surface, the side walls of said receivingrecess being stepped to provide'a plurality of receiving recess portions of successively smaller diameter, said successive receiving recess portions being concentric with the central vertical axis of said member,

the upper horizontal surfaces of said side wall.

steps providing ledges defining the bottoms of said receiving recess portions, said ledges coopcrating with the side walls of said receiving recess portions to support furniture legs substantially concentrically with the vertical axis of said member, and the vertical surfaces of said side wallv steps having angular indentations for accommodating non-circular furniture legs, said indentations alternating with circumferentially spaced the central vertical axis of said member, the upper horizontal surfaces of said side wall steps providing ledges defining the bottoms of said receiving recess portions, said ledges cooperating with the side walls of said receiving recess portions to support furniture legs substantially concentrically with the vertical axis of saidmember, the side walls of certain of said receiving recess portions being provided with right-angled indentations for accommodating non-circular furniture legs within said receiving recess portions, said indented side walls presenting cylindrical portions alternating with said indentations, the latter being disposed at the ends of diametric lines, said receiving recess having a lower central depression of spherical curvature for receiving casters therein.

LOUIS A. JONES 

